Write about a famous person you admire (best of all, coming from your country). And tell us, why!

1. What's his/her name? Profession/position/hobby - what makes this person great.

2. Important and Interesting facts, achievements, problems -write about his/ her life a little bit.

3. How did he/she managed to do that - his/her character.

4. Why do you admire him/her?

Write 10-15 sentences, please.

Ask your teacher to post your description at the Person Description page!

But first, let's practice the language you need for this task and look at some example works.

Expressions and examples:

1..........was/is a famous/a great/a well-known/a fantastic/a very good/a talented/ ........................(profession/hobby/position)

Charls Dickens was a great British writer.

2. He/she was born in ........(year of birth)/ on .......(date of birth).........(year of birth) in ...........(city/ ?country)

(? He/She died .............................)

He was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England. He died in 1870. / He was born on 7 February 1812 and died on 9 June 1870 .

When he/she was .......(age), ........(name)...................

When he was 12, he started working in a factory because his family had financial problems.

When he / she was a child, .........(name)......................

Little .......(name)...................

He /she loved/liked/hated ............. (verb+ing/ noun)

Little Charles loved books. He also liked playing outside. He hated working in the factory.

He/ she wanted to ...........................(verb)

Then/ After that, he/she.....

Other useful verbs in Infinitive and Past Simple

Infinitive (Bezokolicznik)	Past Simple		Polish Translation
be ( is )	was
become	became
have to	had to
have	had
leed	led
receive	received
get	got
can	could
want	wanted
plan	planned
give	gave
give up	gave up
die	died
study	studied
work	worked
not stop (doesn't stop)	didn't stop (infinitive+ing)
finish	finished
start	started
take part	took part
read	read
write	wrote
discover	discovered
win	won
play	played
fight	fought
organize	organized
found	founded
create	created
explore	explored
conduct	conducted
help	helped

3. He/she was .......kind/generous/ courageous/brave/clever/strong

He/she never gave up on his/her plans.

He/ she has got/had got a very strong will.

He/she can/could....

He/she worked/exercised/learnt/studied a lot.

4. I admire him/her because......